ARMED FORCES: The Americal Goes Home

The wind-driven rain slanted in from
the northeast and kept building until the eye of typhoon Hester passed
over Chu Lai. home of the Americal Division. At one point, the
officers' handball-court roof was seen flying end over end through the
air: the roof of the officers' club went piecemeal. The house of Major
General Frederick J. Kroesen, the division commander, simply blew
apart. In the confusion of crumbling buildings and hangars, one man
died, eleven were injured and 33 helicopters were damaged beyond
repair. In all, Hester wreaked more havoc on...